Chief Financial Officer

Staff Unlimited Recruitment; Mbombela; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 750 000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Chief Financial Officer in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. The role requires a bachelor's degree in finance, 8+ years of management experience, and skills in compliance and auditing. Key responsibilities include reporting on profitability, ensuring statutory compliance, and creating financial forecasts. The ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of financial legislation and systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in senior financial management.
• Experience in creating systems addressing loopholes in financial systems.
• Ability to assist with accounting queries.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with all statutory requirements.
• Create accounting forecasts and interpret monthly management accounts.
• Report on Depot profitability and transport costs.

Skills

Professional scepticism

Auditing skills

Accounting forecasts

Knowledge of statutory requirements

Compliance monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance

Job description

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

NELSPRUIT – MPUMALANGA

* Bachelor’s degree in finance necessary and minimum 8 years’ experience in senior financial management.

• The position requires professional scepticism – being aware at all times of possible loopholes in the financial systems (banking, HR, accounting, suppliers, taxes etc) and creating systems that address these possible loopholes.
• Together with the first point – the position requires auditing skills, , such as implementation of segregation of duties etc, when creating effective systems.
• Must be able to create accounting forecasts
• Must have knowledge of statutory requirements for companies, such as Employment Equity, Workmen’s Compensation, Company Taxes (VAT, Income Tax, Customs duties, Employee taxes etc), Companies Act etc.
• Must ensure compliance with all statutory requirements.
• Report on Group costings
• Interpretation of monthly management accounts, Group budget vs actual and group costings
• Report on Depot profitability, Transport costs and back load profitability, and various other sales analyses.
• Constant monitoring of Intergroup loans and servicing them.
• Constant monitoring of Cross border suppliers and customers – their Aging should be as close as possible to 90 days.
• Being available to assist the financial manager in South Africa with any accounting queries